Similar to the "ABBA Voyage" show the Swedish pop supergroup put on throughout 2022 and 2023, KISS has announced plans for an avatar show. The band stated via a short teaser that “A Show Is Coming” in “2027.”
The 25-second clip features some audio snippets from excited KISS fans, as well as an extremely brief animation of the work-in-progress avatars that showcases their looks and superpowers. Notably, Gene Simmons has the ability to fly with bat wings, and Paul Stanley can conjure a purple light in his hands.
“50 years is a long time, and what the future holds is in the making,” reads the video’s title, in reference to the three years fans will have to wait before seeing the avatars in action.
According to Consequence of Sound, KISS announced plans for the avatar shows right at the end of their final concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City earlier this month (December, 2023). This came after Simmons had hinted KISS could continue on in another form after the current band members’ retirement from touring, implying that younger, human musicians could don the facepaint.
Instead, KISS has gone the digital route. They have teamed up with Star Wars special-effects innovators Industrial Light & Magic and Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment, which was also behind the “ABBA Voyage” avatar show.
“We can be forever young and forever iconic by taking us to places we’ve never dreamed of before,” explained Simmons in the initial press release for the avatars. “The technology is going to make Paul [Stanley] jump higher than he’s ever done before.”
Consequence reports the KISS avatars will be literal larger-than-life representations of the iconic rockers, standing over eight-feet tall and possessing animated powers that will allow them to fly above audiences, breathe fire, and more (theatrics the band often achieved via practical effects and stunts during its real-life shows). During a Q&A with fans the week of their final shows at Madison Square Garden, Simmons stated the avatars will get better before the first show, and that “they’re spending, oh, about $200 million to take it to the next level.”
See the KISS Avatar Show teaser below.
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Article Image: Gene Simmons plays guitar and sticks out his tongue during a performance at Ahoy Festival (benhoudijk via DepositPhotos.)
